Document 'stash clear' recovery via unreachable commits

[git.git] / Documentation / git-bisect.txt

diff --git a/Documentation/git-bisect.txt b/Documentation/git-bisect.txt
index e5862b9dbbbd69fcd57e8ec85fb0b08f5bf221d0..63e7a42cb353e2cd0c8bbb6e83927bd1863a32cb 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/git-bisect.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-bisect.txt
@@ -164,9 +164,8 @@ to do it for you by issuing the command:
 $ git bisect skip                 # Current version cannot be tested
 ------------
 
-But computing the commit to test may be slower afterwards and git may
-eventually not be able to tell the first bad commit among a bad commit
-and one or more skipped commits.
+But git may eventually be unable to tell the first bad commit among
+a bad commit and one or more skipped commits.
 
 You can even skip a range of commits, instead of just one commit,
 using the "'<commit1>'..'<commit2>'" notation. For example:
@@ -217,7 +216,7 @@ If you have a script that can tell if the current source code is good
 or bad, you can bisect by issuing the command:
 
 ------------
-$ git bisect run my_script
+$ git bisect run my_script arguments
 ------------
 
 Note that the script (`my_script` in the above example) should
@@ -257,6 +256,13 @@ $ git bisect start HEAD v1.2 --      # HEAD is bad, v1.2 is good
 $ git bisect run make                # "make" builds the app
 ------------
 
+* Automatically bisect a test failure between origin and HEAD:
++
+------------
+$ git bisect start HEAD origin --    # HEAD is bad, origin is good
+$ git bisect run make test           # "make test" builds and tests
+------------
+
 * Automatically bisect a broken test suite:
 +
 ------------
@@ -296,6 +302,15 @@ It is safer if both "test.sh" and "check_test_case.sh" scripts are
 outside the repository to prevent interactions between the bisect,
 make and test processes and the scripts.
 
+* Automatically bisect a broken test suite:
++
+------------
+$ git bisect start HEAD HEAD~10 --   # culprit is among the last 10
+$ git bisect run sh -c "make || exit 125; ~/check_test_case.sh"
+------------
++
+Does the same as the previous example, but on a single line.
+
 Author
 ------
 Written by Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>